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(8 replies, posted in Buying & Selling Cards)

I use Paypal for postage/insurance/services and print the label it generates at home. I've got a post office around the corner from my office so I usually walk over and drop off the packages so that I can be sure they are scanned in.

Awesome! Thanks again.

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(6 replies, posted in Site Discussion)

Another vote for Brawl, at the very least.

I think the killbots are the only alternates with different names. The rest are just different arts/rules texts.

The alternates for Unstable are not in the database, yet.

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(4 replies, posted in Site Discussion)

Yeah, I know. I figured it would help locate cards where the ability is affected by the X, though.

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(4 replies, posted in Site Discussion)

Not sure if this will get you closer to what you want, but search for rules text containing "{X}". The brackets denote a cost symbol. For example, if you wanted all cards whose rules text includes a cost of 2 and a Blue, you'd search for "{2}{u}". For something like green phyrexian mana, use "{gp}". For stuff like Tower Above, it's "{2g}".

GraveyardSlim wrote:

foil+promo (deprecated) whatever that means....

Before the promos had their own sets on Deckbox, all we had was the "promo" flag for indicating what they were. Once they added actual promo sets to the database, they kept that promo flag around so that people's existing inventory wouldn't get screwed up. "Deprecated" just means that you can still use it, but it is an obsolete feature.

I've sold off a lot of my collection over the past few months and have around 40 pretty nice 3-ring binders available. For anyone looking to organize a ton of cards, this might be a cheap way for you to load up. They are all 1.5" Avery heavy duty with the one-touch EZD rings. With ultra pro pages, they're each capable of holding an entire set (or even 4x of an entire set) and they are among the most durable binders I've used. Some are the "non-stick version" here, others are the normal version here.

To give you an idea of what they look like on the shelf:
http://i.imgur.com/4DktVlSb.jpg

(The spine inserts aren't included)

I'm willing to entertain pretty much any reasonable trade offer. Just let me know how many you'd want and we can figure out something. Cards, boosters, whatever.

tichenor1 wrote:

I have some. I'll see what I have this afternoon.

Damn - I should've asked before you shipped my order of cards out! We'll figure something out, I hope.

Hoping to track down the Player's Guides, Rules Booklets or other similar literature from older sets (in good condition). Willing to buy them for a reasonable price or and/or trade towards them.

Here's what I am looking for right now:

  • Limited Edition Alpha

  • Limited Edition Beta

  • Unlimited

  • Arabian Nights

  • Antiquities

  • Revised Edition

  • Legends

  • The Dark

  • Fallen Empires

  • Fourth Edition

  • Ice Age

  • Chronicles

  • Homelands

  • Alliances

  • Mirage

  • Visions

  • 5th Edition

  • Weatherlight

  • Tempest

  • Stronghold

  • Exodus

  • Portal Second Age

  • Unglued

  • Urza's Saga

  • Urza's Legacy

  • 6th Edition

  • Portal Three Kingdoms

  • Urza's Destiny

  • Starter 1999

  • Mercadian Masques

  • Nemesis

  • Prophecy

  • Starter 2000

  • 7th Edition

  • 8th Edition

  • Mirrodin

  • Darksteel

  • 5th Dawn

  • Champions of Kamigawa

  • Unhinged

  • Betrayers of Kamigawa

  • Saviors of Kamigawa

  • 9th Edition

  • Ravnica: City of Guilds

  • Guildpact

  • Dissention

  • Coldsnap

  • Planar Chaos

  • 10th Edition

  • Lorwyn

  • Morningtide

  • Shadowmoor

  • Eventide

  • Shards of Alara

  • Conflux

  • Alara Reborn

  • Magic 2010

  • Zendikar

  • Rise of the Eldrazi

  • Magic 2011

  • Scars of Mirrodin

  • Mirrodin Besieged

  • New Phyrexia

beacon wrote:

well that's a hassle - what if someone has a wishlist of 2000 cards and he didn't specify the preferred language? what if someone did but has recently decided that Japanese cards are fine too? do they have to go back in and add those 2000 cards again and specify Japanese? that makes no sense at all - we should have a simple language filter.

For the time being, you can do both of these things in about two minutes with Excel. Export your wishlist as CSV, open with Excel, make the changes and save, then re-import the CSV.

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(8 replies, posted in Buying & Selling Cards)

No problem - and thanks for filling that order for me a year or two back. Probably took forever, but it helped me complete a few sets.

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(1 replies, posted in General Discussion)

My advice is not to speculate on the price of cards and do what gets you closer to whatever goal you have set for yourself. If your goal is collecting Lilianas, those lands aren't doing anything for you.

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(8 replies, posted in Buying & Selling Cards)

Here is my shipping setup. Might be easier to see how I have structured it and do something similar? These prices do not include any additional charge for packing materials, etc. I take that out of my end. As you get into the higher tiers of insured postage, there's a larger gap between actual cost and what I charge here - for instance, I think I overcharged by a buck or two on an insured package awhile back. When that happens, I just issue a refund or have them pick out some extra value.

http://i.imgur.com/WVJ8ryb.png

The first thing I would do is divide each deck into what you consider the "core" (the cards that, through flavor or other intrinsic qualities, provide the "feel" that you're looking for) and the "support" (the cards that make the core playable and the deck "whole"). Start with your support cards. Are there newer replacements out there that are better that fit the same slot? Would Blossoming Defense be better than Giant Growth? Are there things (like Disenchant that just aren't as relevant anymore that can be dropped in favor of things that do more of the things your deck wants (Spear of Heliod, Immolating Glare, or Tenacity)?

Then, for the core, are there better things that "feel" the same? Skyship Stalker or Glorybringer over Shivan Dragon, for instance? Maybe white weenies wants to become a token deck that focuses on soldiers and their "leaders"?

I get what you're saying. I've run into it as well. I don't think a policy against it is a good idea, though. There are certainly times where extra value on one side or another is warranted and both parties can come to an agreement. If someone is being a jerk, the problem is with that person and not the system.

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(3 replies, posted in Site Discussion)

They will probably be tracked similarly to other double-sided tokens, where each side is tracked as a separate "card". For instance, Commander 2016 has 21 tokens, but these are represented on something like 18 physical cards.

  • Beast // Ogre

  • Bird(W) // Ogre

  • Bird (U) // Myr

  • Bird (W) // Saproling

  • Bird (W) // Spirit

  • ...

They'd probably have to move to the implementation they used for double-sided spells, which, like the addition of promo sets, would need some window of time where both the "legacy" implementation and the new implementation would co-exist so users could correct their inventories, etc.

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(4 replies, posted in Site Discussion)

Seconded. I was just thinking about this on my drive this morning.

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(2 replies, posted in Site Discussion)

There are a few other missing cards in the same vein: the rules inserts from Legends, the checklists from Portal, the poison counter cards from Scars block, and the energy counter cards from Kaladesh, and the checklist cards from Innistrad block immediately come to mind. These are kind of in the same category as the advertisement inserts, though. There's also some actual playables not in the database, but they're obscure - the alternate versions of Jamurran Lion, the alternate of Tawnos' Weaponry, etc.

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(2 replies, posted in Site Discussion)

For what it is worth, I agree with you that a conversion to neutral is not the best solution here.

It sounds like a case could be made to build something on the back-end of the site that allows Sebi et al to re-classify trades. I'm guessing that there isn't an easy way to change a mail trade to an in-person without directly interacting with the site's database. I think (but I'm not positive) that just removing the feedback then allows feedback to be re-entered by the users based on how the application handles the feedback checks.

That said, I know that if I see neutral (or negative) feedback on a profile I always take a quick look at it - I instinctively did that with yours. The edited feedbacks (and the age of those trades) would not dissuade me from trading with you, if that's any consolation. But I get where you're coming from.

My LGS uses Ikea Bjursta tables. They have removable leaves that store inside the table, allowing it to extend to accommodate a draft pod fairly easily.

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(6 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Well, the bad trade was resolved. Sort of. So now, what you've all been waiting for - the Venser rip test.
http://i.imgur.com/3DHa9PGm.jpg http://i.imgur.com/r4FVVGpm.jpg

What a surprise - black core (authentic cards have a blue core).

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(6 replies, posted in General Discussion)

datis_7 wrote:

how would you know if its fake?

http://imgur.com/a/gHTmB

I'm dealing with a fake Venser in a trade at the moment sad

edit: before another person messages me, I know it's a fake. I'm posting the photos so that other people know what to look for.

I'd like to be able to attach photos to trades, similar to how we attach photos to specific cards. This way, two users can document card conditions or any other aspects that are specific to a trade.